12 Days Of Christmas Challenge: Day 3 - Food

Hello lovelies. I hope you have all had a good day. Mine has been pretty terrible but we won't go into that!

It's day 3 of the 12 Days Of Christmas Challenge and today's prompt is food! This is probably my favourite thing about Christmas, I do love a nice big Christmas dinner. However I decided to do something on my nails that I don't actually like eating at Christmas (there are not many things I don't like eating lol). 

Christmas Pudding! Yeah I don't actually like it, but I have seen other people do nails like this and I think they look cute. The base colour I used was China Glaze - Ingrid.

I then freehanded the drips with a dotting tool and detail brush and a white cream.

I then added the berries with a dotting tool and China Glaze - Hey Sailor and freehanded the leaves with Barry M - Spring Green.

I did some similar nails last Christmas before I started blogging, its amazing to see how much I have come on in a year! I was pleased with how they came out this year, especially in comparison to last year.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks for looking.

#BritishBloggerSelection: Skincare

Hello lovelies. How are we all? I have spent my evening doing some lovely Christmas nails for my friend, I am definitely loving the Christmas nail art at the moment!

This weeks #BritishBloggerSelection theme is skincare, so to keep it nail related I have decided to do a post on how I care for my hands and cuticles.

 I believe that taking good care of your hands is paramount to having nice nails. You can paint you nails as nicely and neatly as you like, but if you have dry and broken skin on your fingers, its never going to look as nice. So I am going to share with you a few of the products I use to keep my hands in good condition.

This is quite a long one so read on after the jump :).

12 Days Of Christmas Challenge: Day 2 - Snow

Hello lovelies. How are you all? 

Its day 2 of the 12 Days Of Christmas Challenge and today's theme is snow. To be honest I'm not a fan of snow, I am not a lover of the cold. However snow is very pretty when I am looking at it from the warmth, so I had soo many ideas for this theme.

I finally settled on this idea though..

I started by doing a gradient using Barry M - Blue Moon, an unnamed blue Color Club and Barielle - Surf's Up. You can't see a massive difference between the Barry M and the Color Club, but I quite like the subtle look.

I added a coat of Barry M - Diamond Glitter for a little extra sparkle.

I freehanded the snowflakes using my White Color Club and a detail brush.

I really loved how these came out, they are so wintry and pretty. This kind of snow I do like!

Have you done any wintry designs yet this year? 

Thanks for looking.

Pick A Polish: W7 - Green Dazzle

Hi everyone. I have just got home and am about ready to pass out, is it the weekend yet? lol.

It's Monday so that means it's Pick A Polish time, this week W7 - Green Dazzle was picked from my stash. I picked this up last Christmas time, thinking it would be a good Christmas glitter but I never got round to using it. So this is the first time it has been used, I have so many untried polishes, its unreal!

Green Dazzle is a green leaning teal glitter in a clear base. The photo above shows 4 coats with no undies, I think you could just about get away with wearing it like this but you can still see a bit of nail. I did find that the base is slightly tinted so it did makes my nails look very yellow in the gaps. It was also getting quite thick at this point and was quite slow drying.

For these reasons, I much prefer this layered over another colour. This photo shows one coat over China Glaze - Keep Calm, Paint On. Glitter pay off is good and I found it applied very evenly and smoothly.

Onto the nail art...

The base colour again is China Glaze - Keep Calm, Paint On.

I added the animal stripes on using a striping brush and W7 - Green Dazzle.

I really liked how this nail art came out, sometimes keeping it simple can be more effective. I am also glad I finally tried this glitter out as I do love it layered.

What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for looking.

12 Days Of Christmas Challenge: Day 1 - Presents

Hi everyone. How are we all? I am putting up my Christmas tree today, I'm such a big kid when it comes to Christmas.

I am taking part in the 12 Days Of Christmas Challenge! There are twelve themes which and we will be posting every other day. This is my first ever challenge and I am very excited to be taking part :). I also love Christmas, so this is the perfect challenge for me.

The first theme was presents! Who doesn't love presents? I have to admit these did cause me a few issues, everything just kept going wrong. But I got there in the end.

I used a base of Barry M - Watermelon.

I then freehanded the white cross on with a striping brush and Color Club - White.

I freehanded the bows in China Glaze - Goldie But Goodie and outlined the white with this too. It was the bows which were causing me issues, I couldn't get them right. I am still not 100% happy with how they came out but this was my best try. 

So maybe not my best work ever, but I still have 11 more themes to go so that's plenty of time to do something I like. 

What are your thoughts? Let me know what you think.

Thanks for looking.